I am using the awful.widget.textclock widget to display the time in Awesome WM on Arch Linux, and I am using a program called tzupdate to automatically update my system time according to geolocation ...

I know that (for example in Debian) one could use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata to change the timezone of the system but I am wondering how one could change the user timezone (if Linux/Unix supports such an ...

I have been installing several systems lately have noticed a difference of opinion on how to set time-zones.
Arch Linux Beginners' Guide says to use a symlink and the Gentoo HOW TO Guide says to copy ...

How can we automatically set the system default timezone in Linux using the Internet? As I see it, NTP servers can update only time, but not timezone. Is there any server that can change the timezone?
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I've moved to fluxbox as my default environment on our corporate environment.
I obviously can't change the time on the machine. But I'd like the clock to show my local time instead of the machine's ...

I have a game (scrolls.com) that I'm running under wine. Everything was OK, until I moved and changed my timezone.
Now, if I keep my old timezone it works. But if I change the timezone to something ...

My OS is Gentoo. My Hardware Clock is set to UTC. The date command returns the correct time and timezone (EDT). However, my GNOME clock is set to UTC. I have 2 clocks, one at Internet Time, and one ...

I'm working on an embedded system with linux. I'm trying to change the timezone used by the operating system and I'm doing this by copying the timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime ...

I believe rdesktop 1.7.1 is sending Linux timezones (For example "EST") to the Windows client I regularly connect to (I am yet to find a way of seeing what Windows receives in the way of RDP settings ...

I have an iPod touch (2nd gen) and constant troubles with the clock setting itself one hour ahead of the actual time when I connect it to the computer.
long story short, When I SSH into the device:
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I have a VPS running on Cent Os 5.8 (x86). There are situations in which we are forced to reset the entire VPS (it hangs and the only way to get it back on is to reset it). When we do so, the time is ...

I have an windows application (Under Wine) that only works when I change timezone to NewYork's TimeZone.
with Any other zone it doesn't start!!
So, Is it possible in Linux to run an application with ...

There are over a thousand time zone files on your typical *nix box (in /user/share/zoneinfo). Many of them vary only in historical dates which have little relevance for programs which care only about ...

im currently installing FreeBSD. Im at the "Time Zone Selector" screen. I don't know what should i choose. Normally, since i live in Quebec (Canada), i choose Eastern time GMT -5, but there is no such ...

I have friends all over the globe and before calling them I need to know their current time. Is there an application in Linux where one can query a city (if exists) in terminal (something like this): ...